Our training
seeks to create a harmonious balance within the human mind; today's
society centres around the use of the 'left-brain' or 'logical
brain' which is limiting to a great extent. The 'right-brain' is
almost closed off in most people, but this is the 'intuitive' side
of the human brain. With the decline in the use of this side most
people also lose any 'common sense', even though they may appear to
be 'intellectual'. The ideal would be a balance of the left-brain
and right-brain, thus creating a harmonious relationship between
the two sides. To do so the 'right-brain' has to be the subject of
training, and this can be done through special training in the
Martial Arts.

The right-brain - this is where
theinspiration and creativity stems from,
where the artist and the poet get their inspiration from. We today
do not see the warrior as a poet, or the poet as a warrior, and yet
as late as the times of the Vikings the warrior was also often a
poet. The 'fighter' and the 'intellectual' are today seen as
separate entities, indeed, each normally looks down upon the other;
how much better would it be to create the Intelligent
Warrior, the individual who was not only a 'fighter' but a
'thinker'.

In today's world the martial arts
is seen as a sport, for competition, but this was certainly not the
case when these were developed in various different areas of the
world. Just a quick look at Kung Fu or Karate will show how they
developed parallel with some form of spiritual discipline such as
Buddhism. They were thus not, like today, there to develop the
physical body alone, but to develop body, mind and spirit
together.

The balance of Light and Darkness
within the individual is the aim of our work; to create a harmony
within the individual. This has to work on the body, the mind, and
the spirit, and this entails training in -

Physical Fitness for the body, essential for
good health and also for a healthy mind too ('A healthy body means
a healthy mind' is the saying). This not only entails exercise but
also what we eat and drink, and the lifestyle that we
lead.

Development
of the Mind. Like everything else the mind will gradually atrophe
if it is not used and developed; this is the same with the body,
and we see this clearly in the quality of the people here in
England today. Look around and see this degeneration for yourself -
and then make it your goal to rise above this. My mother died at
the age of 101 but she kept her mind agile until the very end; she
did this through doing word-puzzles and the like, which 'exercises'
the mind. Of course, this is not the only way, and indeed not the
way we need to look at this since we need to 'exercise' both sides
of the brain through working with both intellect (left) and
intuition (right). In regard to this we need only recall the famous
saying from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four-
'Ignorance is Strength' - which means that the State System
requires the masses to be ignorant and thus more easily controlled.
Knowledge means freedom.

Spiritual Exercises - here we have to develop our education and
training around the Ar-Kan Rune-Lag System which embraces our
Ancient Runes but also a new Warrior Training in both the exoteric
and esoteric Warrior Arts. This Runic System will be developed
through theAr-Kan Rune-Lag blog which is on Google
Blogger.

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The balance of Light
& Darkness we see as the balance of Fire and Ice in our Runic
Lore - of movement & action (Fire) and of stillness and
contemplation (Ice). This actually relates to the idea of the
Left-Brain/Right-Brain theme since 'contemplation' also embraces
the idea of meditation, and it is known that the basic action is
triggered by a chemical calledserotonin which
is produces in the
darkness.

The Edel-Rune or
Odal-Rune shown here is made up of the balance of Light and
Darkness; two Sieg-Runes facing each other. It is the 'White Sun'
and the 'Black Sun' in balance and harmony. The Edel-Rune
represents the concept of Blood & Soil which
is the mystical link between the Blood of the Folk and the Soil of
the Folkland. This is the link between Man and
Nature.

The Black Sun is symbolic of the
'nigredo' of our people who are today passing through a time of
trials and very harsh times, indeed the survival of our people is
at stake. But this symbol is more than that since, as we see here,
the Twelve Rays appear to moveinwards towards the
centre thus hinting at the Science of
Implosionrather than the exlosive science of today.
The whole thing, which appeared in a crop-circle some years ago,
hints at a circular movement of energy.